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authorJ William Piggott2017-05-30 02:47:34 +0200
committerJ William Piggott2017-05-31 17:36:47 +0200
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docs: move source-code-management.txt to README
source-code-management.txt and README had similar content so combine them in README. Change Documentation/source-code-management.txt references to README. Remove Documentation/source-code-management.txt. Move IRC Channel information to README Expand information about git branches and tags in README. Add workflow to README; written by Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto-contribute.txt18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/release-schedule.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/source-code-management.txt38
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 53 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/howto-contribute.txt b/Documentation/howto-contribute.txt
index fc2c50330..71b9ed771 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto-contribute.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto-contribute.txt
@@ -5,17 +5,16 @@ CONTENTS
Coding Style
Various Notes
Standards Compliance
- IRC Channel
Sending Patches
- * send your patches to the mailing list or to the project maintainer.
+ * send your patches to the mailing list.
See ../README.
* email is accepted as an inline patch with, or without, a git pull
request. Pull request emails need to include the patch set for review
- purposes. See howto-pull-request.txt and source-code-management.txt
- for git repository instructions.
+ purposes. See howto-pull-request.txt and ../README for git repository
+ instructions.
* email attachments are difficult to review and not recommended.
Hint: use git send-email.
@@ -64,7 +63,7 @@ Patching Process
Hint: use the --subject-prefix='PATCH v2' option with 'git format-patch'
* using a git repository for (re)submissions can make life easier.
- See howto-pull-request.txt and source-code-management.txt.
+ See howto-pull-request.txt and ../README.
* all patch submissions are either commented, rejected, or accepted.
If the maintainer rejects a patch set it is pointless to resubmit it.
@@ -190,12 +189,3 @@ Standards Compliance
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcuix.html
-IRC Channel
-
- * #util-linux at freenode.net:
-
- irc://chat.freenode.net/util-linux
-
- This channel is for developers and project maintainers. For end users
- it is recommended to utilize the distribution's IRC channel or support
- forum.
diff --git a/Documentation/release-schedule.txt b/Documentation/release-schedule.txt
index 728de4d4d..0e126948d 100644
--- a/Documentation/release-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/release-schedule.txt
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ For all releases it is required that:
See also
--------
-Documentation/source-code-management.txt
+../README
diff --git a/Documentation/source-code-management.txt b/Documentation/source-code-management.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index ffa90d055..000000000
--- a/Documentation/source-code-management.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-SCM (source code management):
-
- Primary repository:
- git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git util-linux
-
- Backup repository:
- git clone git://github.com/karelzak/util-linux.git
-
-Note that GitHub repository may contain temporary development branches too.
-
-The kernel.org repository contains master (current development) and stable/*
-(maintenance) branches only. All master or stable/* changes are always pushed
-to the both repositories in the same time.
-
-Branches:
-
- * maintenance (stable) branch
- - created for every <major>.<minor> release
- - branch name: stable/v<major>.<minor>
-
- * master branch
- - the status of this branch is: "it works for me". It
- means useful but not well tested patches.
- - it's source for occasional snapshots
- - for long-term development or invasive changes should be
- an active development forked into a separate branch
- (topic branches) from the tip of "master".
-
-Tags:
-
- * A new tag object is created for:
- - every release, tag name: v<version>, see "git tag -l" for
- more information
- - all tags are signed by maintainer's PGP key
-
- * KNOWN BUGS:
- - don't use tag v2.13.1 (created and published by mistake),
- use v2.13.1-REAL.